This here is a still life drawing I did in my Drawing I course. Graphite was the main medium; a viewfinder was also used to make sure the objects were proportional.
I actually don’t like this one as much as my vine charcoal drawing I uploaded because I can tell some areas were rushed. The hardest thing for me was sketching things out as quickly as I could before going back and shading.
This drawing is a still life reductive value drawing – I was to completely cover the page in vine charcoal and erase from it to form the picture.
I absolutely hated this one because I was highly frustrated getting charcoal everywhere and not being able to have it come out the way I would have like. The most challenged part was going back in and trying to darken and lighten certain areas to make it look like the still life presented in front of me.
Create a line drawing of the ladder and boxes still-life. This picture is important to make correct angle and size. Word draw is not important but if put it looks so good.
This is a Still Life where the whole background is the middle color with the charcoal. In this still life, we have a skull, a skeleton bone, and a wine bottle. There are a few waved lines that represented the white that is underneath the still life. The Skull has a small crack on top of the cranial area. The teeth of the skull almost look like the teeth of a cartoon character. The bone also looks like a dog bone. The back skull is shaded darker and the part that is next to the jaw. The still life might look a little better with a little touch of shadow and light from each item if the still life was at a different angle. Overall, the still life drawing has most of its features so far.
This is a charcoal drawing of still life. It contains a spray bottle, wine bottle, a ball, and it looks like tape. Value was the main concept practiced in the drawing.
A charcoal drawing done with charcoal and blending. This was my first time working with charcoal in this way and I tried my best to capture what I was seeing. I first covered the paper completely in charcoal. I then blended and outlined with charcoal and an eraser as necessary as well as blending with my fingers just a bit. I tried to limit using my hands and fingers as the oils from fingers and hands can make erasing and correcting more difficult in the long run. I also included a blending chart in the corner for reference. I tried to blend and shade based on what I was seeing in the still life itself as well as making the outlines dark but not so dark that it wasn’t realistic.
I am hoping to improve over time and I realize it’s not a perfect drawing. However, it is a first attempt and it is not expected to be perfect on the first try.
For this drawing, I tried to use negative space and contrast to define its lines instead of harder lines, to a degree of success. At first, the canvas was full of charcoal, and slowly erased away to detail the shapes.
I think I could’ve done better on this drawing. While I’ve upped the contrast on the picture, it has some obvious lines, as well as an overall messy look. Some shapes are easily made out, but others are less defined and trickier to analyze. If I redid this, I would likely be more deliberate in what I erase.
